ENGL 1616 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lady Macduff, Gothic Fiction, Banquo
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Great chain of being~ god on top; hierarchy. Babes and infants~ lady macbeth fueled by the bitterness over her baby being dead. (cid:862)a si(cid:374)gle state of (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) ~ ma(cid:272)(cid:271)eth a(cid:272)t (cid:1005) (cid:272)e(cid:374)e (cid:1007) li(cid:374)e (cid:1005)(cid:1008)(cid:1004) Macbeth anticipates the emergence of the gothic novel. Gothic literature~ sinister and violent, dark and tempestuous. Gothic romance~ gothic heroine, a virginal lady threatened by a dark male. Idea of limit: finite and imperfect knowledge. Oedipus rex ~ fulfilled a prophecy that he was running from. Sophocles~ hubris idea of knowing everything when we in reality know very little. Macbeth hears three prophecies but is given very little information from the witches. Make choices based on reason and conscience. Ma(cid:272)(cid:271)eth ~ (cid:448) dark i(cid:373)agery (cid:449) (cid:862)flashes of red(cid:863) Everything is unstable because of the storm and the rebellion. The thane of cawdor threatens king duncan. Great chain of being is threatened when the witches show up.
